book completed

After what seemed like a lifetime, the book was completed, and then onto the printing which involved doubled checking all resolutions, colours, and whether pages were on the left or right ( as the paper had to be fed in differently depending on the turn ). Production becomes easier with practice!

Lastly the audio and DVD were written and added into a box format that housed the book. This provided both presentation and packaging to protect the project.

paul

layouts for the Boom book

Edited our pictures down and them married them up to the text and worked on the layout. Had to format the page size to fit on the inkjet paper and paginate the whole thing. Took so much longer than you would expect.

paul

SENSE EXHIBITION website

this is our sense exhibition website link :
www.wix.com/noviardi_prasetya/sense-exhibition/

Website portfolio built

I would embed it here, but don't quite know how to do that. Here's a website with the work from Process onwards.

http://www.wix.com/paulpostle/paul-postle-MA-design

Paul

red cabbage

Finished my second mini brief off last week. Very upset that the photographic studios were closed because a member of staff was off sick, so I had to shoot it at home on a dummy. Never mind. The idea was to see what I could do with the cabbage. If was interesting scanning ( if a little obvious ). Great fun working with it in the darkroom. Don't think I have ever known anyone try vegetable printing with photographic chemicals ... both original and fun. Finally I tried making a garment with the leaves. It was quite heavy and when moist, was easy to tear. As the vegetable dried out it got lighter in weight and tougher. I thought it was effective as a fabric. Can picture it as a studio shoot - once when fresh and then reshot every week until it was dried and rotten: I think this would have gone from latex / rubbery to dried leathery / paper.

Paul Postle

Idea for exhibition: sensory accessory

Inspired by the variation and unpredictability of Brick Lane, I am wondering how we perceive everyday surroundings. How do we filter, connect, and recognize all the complex and overlapping information acquired by our sensory detectors? If sensing is a very private and subjective procedure, how easily would we be manipulated unconsciously?

Since vision domains most parts of the way we feel, I started by making a kaleidoscope and transformed it into different ways of seeing. Through the visual experiment, I was getting interested in the possibility of the way we read everyday life by other mixing other senses.

In this exhibition, my idea is to make a collection of accessories which allows people to wear and to experience different ways of sensing. By connecting individual sensory detector, people might start to think about the interaction and contradiction of stimulation, and reinterpret what they really “feel”. Though it is still a rough idea, for example, observatory such as a combination of gloves and facial mask might give a chance of “the touch of smell”. The accessories might help to create fresh experience of joining our Brick Lane Party.

ying

experiment 2- how unreliable of what we see

Started from making a kaleidoscope, I become very interested in how we perceive the surroundings. To what extend that we feel could be misleading or be encoded in the way we don’t even realize if we rely only on vision. In this experiment, I tried to manipulate “image” by using different material as visual filter.

In the very beginning, I simply used triangular mirror as the way we look. It’s very interesting to find that even if we can see the real object, we can still feel confusing with so much reflection around.








In addition, I added translucent film on the tip of the mirror. The details of objects are removed except colour. Does what we see through the device become unreliable or much closer to the essence?











I replaced mirror with foil in cylinder shape, trying to create more distorted information. Also, I change the way we used to see –the information inflow is the lateral view. The image is now unrecognizable even if it still contains both shape and colour.














Covering tracing paper on the cylinder foil, the last image is simply colour of light.






Starting from this experiment, I wonder how I can convert and integrate other information we percieve from other senses. Since we are always forced to get too much information and noise at the same time as in Brick Lane, how can I create a multi-sense filter to help recognizing the best reality?

ying